The interior of your home can be unhealthy and environmentally unfriendly to you and your family, especially babies and small children, and the elderly. The paint you use, the toy's you let your children play with, cleaning products, your carpet, and any other materials that are brought into the home may make you and your family sick.

The air in your home can be especially harmful. Many people are allergic to dog and cat hair, certain plants, mold and mildew, and a host of other allergens, household chemicals, paints, carpet fibers, and any one of many other pollutants. Germs, bacteria, and viruses can be airborne as well as stationary on just about anything in your home.

Circulating the air with filters and the use of other purification devices and techniques can drastically cut down on allergens and other pollutants. With growing technological advances in filtering and cleaning products and devices, the air in your home can be made safe and secure.

Air filters can remove over 95 percent of all airborne particles that can be as small as one millionth of a meter (1 micron) and they can be highly effective for clearing your home of dander, pollens, smoke, and other unpleasant smells.

Most people don't give a second thought about the chemical emissions and fumes that are released from carpets, paints, tile grouts, household cleaning products or the minute traces of carbon monoxide and other hazardous materials that are present in most homes.

Their is a general belief that what you can't see can't hurt you. This is way beyond the truth and can be very harmful to you and your family. Most of the allergens, chemicals, and bacterial agents that are present in your home are not detectable with the naked eye, yet they can cause many different illnesses from basic allergies to brain damage, cancer, lung disease, and death.

Allergens, bacteria's, chemical emissions, paint fumes, and anything that can cause illnesses are serious concerns and should be taken seriously.

Although it is almost impossible to make your home 100% safe, there are several steps that you can take to move towards a more healthful household environment. You have to make choices that may cause a change in lifestyle. It involves making a plan to keep the living spaces in your home clean, nontoxic, and environmentally safe, sound, and friendly.

You and your family deserve to live a good, healthy lifestyle. The interior living spaces of your home is where you spend most of your time, so it is the place that should be kept as clean and healthy as possible. You can help by using air purifiers. They can filter out many of the undesirable elements that are in the air in your home.

Most air purifiers are not strong enough to purify a whole house. They are usually made with just enough power to purify rooms of a certain size, so make sure that your unit has enough power for the room you have it in. The maximum room size should be specified on the unit. It is also very important that filters are changed as specified by the manufacturer.